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- Wireless industry bows to 'bill shock' rules
- LibreOffice plans ports to iOS, Android, cloud
- SGI inks reseller deal with Cloudera
- US military debated hacking Libyan air defenses
- Pumped-up radio telescope seeks new moniker
- Microsoft updates Intune to patch cloud pitch
- WD: Thailand floods worse than feared
- US telcos agree to warn users <i>before</i> they bust their tariff
- Steve Jobs memorial brings out tech titans... and Bono
- IBM big iron OSes treated to spit and polish
- Verizon users must 'opt in' for privacy
- Appro notches up another Los Alamos super deal
- Bushfire halts solarcar race in its tracks
- Three questions that could put out Amazon's Fire
- MacBook case fabs kick up a right stink
- Gartner: Acer's glory days may be over
- Apple: 4m iPhone 4S handsets sold, thank you very much
- Leo DiCaprio slated to play Turing in biopic
- Survey: '4 million' Brits stung by ID theft
- Boffins whip up SELF-WIRING chip
- Bog builder pushes out poo-powered motorbike
- Firefox preps native Android interface
- RIM hopes to distract punters with free pretties
- Virgin Media broadband in two-day wobble
- iPad baby baffled by paper magazine
- Self Service BI: Would you, should you?
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S Android smartphone
- 1m iPad 3s being built this quarter, says analyst
- Public sector cloud looms, but who wants it?
- Back to the Future DeLorean to go under the hammer
- OpenSUSE 12.1 delivers Fedora punch with GNOME 3
- Samsung demands iPhone 4S ban in Japan and Oz
- <i>Sesame Street</i> YouTube page hijacked by smut pushers
- MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data
- House of Marley Exodus headphones
- Voda in 3G blackhole probe by ASA
- Why so shy on pay-by-wave, Nokia?
- And they're off! Day one at the solar races
- Vivid commits to east coast rollout
- Attorney-General alters copyright consultation paper
- Oz channel in the spotlight for Kaspersky
- MS NZ flogs digital health arm to locals
| Wireless industry bows to 'bill shock' rules Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:03 PM PDT FCC, consumers win a roundBowing to pressure from the US Federal Communications Commission, mobile service providers have agreed on a set of guidelines designed to prevent unexpected wireless charges that induce what's become known as "bill shock".… |
| LibreOffice plans ports to iOS, Android, cloud Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:39 PM PDT French government says 'oui' to open sourceThe Document Foundation, which is developing the LibreOffice software suite, has demonstrated the business software working entirely in the browser for cloud applications, and has announced that it will also port it to Android and iOS.… |
| SGI inks reseller deal with Cloudera Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:34 PM PDT Hadoop clusters stacked and racked, data not includedSilicon Graphics is chasing elephants – stuffed elephants, that is – and it has enlisted Cloudera as a partner in its big-data safari.… |
| US military debated hacking Libyan air defenses Posted: 17 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Obama urged to keep Ferrari in garage for time beingThe Obama administration intensely debated whether to hack the computer networks that run Libya's air-defense system in the days leading up to the US-led strikes against Qaddafi forces, The New York Times reports.… |
| Pumped-up radio telescope seeks new moniker Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:43 AM PDT Public help sought for unimaginative boffinsThe prosaically named Very Large Array radio-telescope installation is getting a substantial upgrade – and the boffins who tend it have decided that it needs a new name to go with its formidable facelift.… |
| Microsoft updates Intune to patch cloud pitch Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:42 AM PDT Offers incentives for partners to push codeMicrosoft has updated its Intune management suite, adding support for third party application patches and better hardware-management capabilities.… |
| WD: Thailand floods worse than feared Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:32 AM PDT 'Significant impact' on hard drive productionWD is expecting flooding in Thailand to "significantly impact" disk drive availability this quarter after the situation deteriorated.… |
| US telcos agree to warn users <i>before</i> they bust their tariff Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:04 AM PDT You are now leaving the Land of the FreeUS network operators have bowed to public pressure, and the FCC, by agreeing to send out notifications every time a user pops their bundled allocation of minutes, messages and data.… |
| Steve Jobs memorial brings out tech titans... and Bono Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:32 AM PDT Larry Page forgot to put invite in his Google walletTech world supremos Larry Page, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Apple's Tim Cook and Scott Forstall made an appearance at the secret memorial for Steve Jobs held in Stanford University yesterday.… |
| IBM big iron OSes treated to spit and polish Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:03 AM PDT Windows on zBX, clustered z/VM, and virtual z/VSEMainframe hardware got a refresh at the high end last year and in the midrange this year, but that is it for this level of big iron from IBM for a while. However there are plenty of enhancements the company will add to its mainframe operating systems to keep its largest customers happy – and therefore happy enough to pay the premiums that IBM commands for its mainframe iron.… |
| Verizon users must 'opt in' for privacy Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:36 AM PDT You are the product, even if you're paying for the serviceUS operator Verizon Wireless is to log, and sell, customers' browsing and location history, unless the customers specifically opt out of being tracked at every turn.… |
| Appro notches up another Los Alamos super deal Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT Riding a Mustang to $10mSupercomputer maker Appro International has lassoed itself another supercomputer win at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.… |
| Bushfire halts solarcar race in its tracks Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:53 AM PDT Frustrating wait for teamsWSC Great excitement on day 2 of the 2011 World Solar Challenge - a bush fire halted the 3000km race across Australia for several hours.… |
| Three questions that could put out Amazon's Fire Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:33 AM PDT US politician probes Bezos' Silk RoadA US congressman is pushing Amazon for details of its cloud-based browsing, Silk, specifically asking what data the company is gathering and how it intends to make use of it.… |
| MacBook case fabs kick up a right stink Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:13 AM PDT Production hit by neighbours' odour complaintsTaiwanese parts supplier Catcher Technology has been forced to close down some of its production systems in China's Suzhou province after local residents complained to the authorities about "odours" coming from its factories.… |
| Gartner: Acer's glory days may be over Posted: 17 Oct 2011 06:32 AM PDT Shipments slide despite rallying PC marketGartner reckons the inventory debacle at Acer may have permanently cost the vendor its position near the summit of the PC market.… |
| Apple: 4m iPhone 4S handsets sold, thank you very much Posted: 17 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT KerchingApple sold 4m iPhone 4S handsets this past Friday and over the weekend, it claimed today.… |
| Leo DiCaprio slated to play Turing in biopic Posted: 17 Oct 2011 06:04 AM PDT Superboffin's life told with a blockbuster budgetWarner Bros has outbid other film studios to secure the rights to a script on the life of Alan Turing.… |
| Survey: '4 million' Brits stung by ID theft Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT Average cost to victims reaches £1,190Consumers continue to be complacent about identity theft despite growth of the crime, which has claimed four million victims in the UK alone.… |
| Boffins whip up SELF-WIRING chip Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:32 AM PDT Electrons steered through new nanomaterialBoffins have developed a new nanoscale material that could potentially allow computers to rewire themselves according to the user's needs.… |
| Bog builder pushes out poo-powered motorbike Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:23 AM PDT Plopper on the chopperJapan's leading toilet manufacturer has really pushed the float out with its promotional activities, creating a poo-powered motorcycle with its own built-in lav-look seat.… |
| Firefox preps native Android interface Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT Web beast promises snappy responseThe Firefox interface on Android is going native – for snappier performance and to gobble less memory.… |
| RIM hopes to distract punters with free pretties Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:02 AM PDT You don't need connectivity to play BejeweledRIM is to hand out free apps to appease its beleaguered customers, along with free technical support so next time the network collapses a human being can tell you you're screwed.… |
| Virgin Media broadband in two-day wobble Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:43 AM PDT Outage fix due TuesdayVirgin Media customers in London and the South East have been rocked by internet outages that cut them off from big sites including Wikipedia, Yahoo! and the Guardian yesterday and this morning. Reg readers bombarded our inbox to report pockets of dicky service, which seemed to start on Sunday morning and is still ongoing for some people.… |
| iPad baby baffled by paper magazine Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:31 AM PDT Infant QA test result: 'This sucks'Video Youth is not wasted on the young. But apparently paper is, and so are static and archaic publishing models that don't involve pinching and poking. This baby is so used to an iPad that old-fashioned dead-tree media is just baffling.… |
| Self Service BI: Would you, should you? Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:11 AM PDT Reg Readers say Yes!Expert Clinic We asked last week for your expert views on the state of self-service business intelligence.… |
| Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S Android smartphone Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Ahead of the curve?Review Sony Ericsson's first Xperia smartphones could hardly be called stylish but the new 2011 models are a different kettle of fish. The latest, called the Arc S is quite simply gorgeous. Along with the original Arc and the new Xperia Ray, the Arc S may well qualify as one of the prettiest handsets ever made.… |
| 1m iPad 3s being built this quarter, says analyst Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:54 AM PDT Apple's contract manufacturers have started punching out parts for the iPad 3.… |
| Public sector cloud looms, but who wants it? Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:42 AM PDT Local gov CIO: 'What's this thing even for?'It appeared to fall off the radar for a while, but the plan for the G Cloud has gone back to the top of the government's IT agenda.… |
| Back to the Future DeLorean to go under the hammer Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:30 AM PDT Bid for the famous time machineDoc Brown may have used his tool kit on the car many a time, but the DeLorean from Back to the Future is now going under a different kind of hammer. The time-travelling vehicle is up for auction later this year, wealthy fans of the film series will be excited to know.… |
| OpenSUSE 12.1 delivers Fedora punch with GNOME 3 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:23 AM PDT Linux herd joinerReview The big news in openSUSE 12.1, whose first beta has recently dropped, is the arrival of GNOME 3 – in this case GNOME 3.2.… |
| Samsung demands iPhone 4S ban in Japan and Oz Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT This patent war is not over yetDespite setbacks in three patent battles with Apple last week, Samsung has come out fighting today by filing for preliminary injunctions on the iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia.… |
| <i>Sesame Street</i> YouTube page hijacked by smut pushers Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:41 AM PDT Big Bird occupies |
| MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT Magic dust for hard drives is table saltA Singapore researcher claims that disk drives could hold six times more data by adding table salt to a bit-patterned media (BPM) process.… |
| House of Marley Exodus headphones Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT The beat goes onGeek Treat of the Week As soon as I saw the Exodus headphones I wanted them, and now that I've heard them – well, I'm just jammin' till the jam is through.… |
| Voda in 3G blackhole probe by ASA Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:29 AM PDT Ad watchdog called in over service outage outrageSerious network problems in Glasgow have left Vodafone customers with a dicky 3G service for at least six months, according to a complaint the Advertising Standards Agency is investigating.… |
| Why so shy on pay-by-wave, Nokia? Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:00 AM PDT New site pushes NFC but the elephant is holding a purseNokia has launched a new website promoting Near Field Communications without any mention of the pay-by-wave systems that have got everyone else so excited.… |
| And they're off! Day one at the solar races Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:46 PM PDT El Reg pursues early leadersWSC Yesterday, 37 solar cars set off from State Square in Darwin, NT for the start of the 3,000km 2011 World Solar Challenge across the Australian continent. El Reg's Special Projects Bureau was there to wave them off...… |
| Vivid commits to east coast rollout Posted: 16 Oct 2011 05:13 PM PDT Vocus to manage backbone4G network operator vividwireless remains committed to extending its network coverage across the Eastern states over the next year, and has signed data centre and dark fibre provider Vocus Communications for a multi-year IP transit deal.… |
| Attorney-General alters copyright consultation paper Posted: 16 Oct 2011 04:46 PM PDT Feeding the trolls 101The Australian Attorney-General's department has triggered a teacup-storm of speculation, criticism, and conspiracy-theorizing by issuing and then changing a discussion paper on copyright reform.… |
| Oz channel in the spotlight for Kaspersky Posted: 16 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT Product launches backed with reseller supportAlong with a new product release, Kasperky Lab is also prepping a 12-month assault on Australia's IT channel with the aim of growing its business here by 20 per cent in the current financial year.… |
| MS NZ flogs digital health arm to locals Posted: 16 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Orion swallows MS Hospital Information SystemsUpending the natural order, New Zealand software company Orion has acquired a suite of health products that had been marketed under the Amalga brand, for an undisclosed sum.… |
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